Sewage-disposal apparatus.



troduetion. This detective notion is ingini'- tested by the Scum directly over tliis point, which bezonies thickened and. pilesup, I :5 therefore provide onening, 1.3, fifi, 15, 16, 1.7, i8, and 1.9,"il`ig. lyin pinesA f2, having valves or gutes which ere manipulated from outside said bed. The operation ot 'suoli Ineens is f ollmvs: fill the gutes urecloeed., zo' excepting one; say i2. when the Sonno. over gate i2.elc-ws byv .zg up that ihn lmet@- 'riil mztionubout tme i at or inlioduetion is beooniii'igarresten @finit-lint clogging; is mkn ing'pluce, gatefi? is closed and u gate at so) :i 5 distant point opein as at 17 Tl rested uction takes plena. ottensonio weeks, sometimes months, i ter of the gewag. .int parntive freedom ioni o" 3o 'mains open until?. ille di.

duced anni .its conio L e i7 re tlv over it D n direc oetivity, wliereupon :i i7 is closed. .finti miotliergote o' o'. @losing muses the nornml roces-s; o2' unioine had ording to the immooctetos in' Similar nimmer tlio like deine# toe vaten.

terizil notion to lie resumed et the defective points. l v

,In practice the series of anrolic loiicte1i.1-4 beds herein described are errang-ed onA a Slightly-inclined grade'. VVliere the natural Conditions ila-vor, they muy. be constructed by excavating the earth in suitable shapes, 'using the ground 'itself for walls or lining with concrete, or the construction muy be of suitable materiels Wholly or partially above ground.

claim as new, sind desire lto Secure by .Letters y Patent of the United States, isf- 1. In sewage-disposal apparatus having.

si' Series ol"coin1'nu111euting bacterial-beds, an initial bacterial-bed li :tying Ineens of Shifting periodically the position of the region of de feetive enzerobio activity therein.

ln smvogwdigpoeal apparatus, an initialv sinz'erohio bacterial lied" having means ,of 'Shifting' the j'iosition oi tl'io region of defective anzerolio activity" therein periodically, in

oinnliiimtion with e series oi vomnuinicoting m'iun'olin; bacterial-beds of sufficient number to Substantially eliiniimte uli anaerobic 102.6I terni.

` .in testimony whereof i.. have' hereunto signed my naine in. the presence of two Witl .nosseel JHN 'i/Vlilil'iilvl KEEGN.

Witnesses:

FINLAY Coon,

W. i lil. MEAD.

{zn/:ing deserilied my invention, what If 

